Category: Technology

Manage your money with Mint

A summary of why you should be using Mint to keep track of your finances. Don’t bother reading this if you’re already taking advantage of all that Mint has to offer.

Friday February 12th, 2010 in Productivity, Technology | View Comments

The Livescribe Pulse – A sweet pen you should probably get

The Livescribe Pulse pen is an awesome tool for anyone who needs to take notes (students, researchers, field workers, etc.). This post gives an overview of the features, limitations, and competitors to the Pulse.

Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 in Productivity, Technology | View Comments

Stuck in Android Limbo

I spent over two years using a fat clamshell phone with glittery rainbow and penguin stickers on it.  This would not be surprising if I was a 14 year old girl.  But I was that girl’s older brother. Aside from the stickers and clunky interface, the phone only had space for approximately 5 text messages [...]

Sunday January 24th, 2010 in Commentary, Technology | View Comments

The Future of Education

The most depressing class I ever took was freshman intro chemistry.  Granted, it was advanced intro chemistry (oxymoronic, but that’s how the course identifications work at MIT; extra numbers = harder, extra letters = easier).  So this was 5.112 (as opposed to the standard introductory 5.111).  So why was it so depressing?  I had learned [...]

Friday January 8th, 2010 in Commentary, Productivity, Society, Technology | View Comments

Google has a problem with DNA analysis

About a year ago, my roommate started a little DNA analysis journal club here at Berkeley. It was just meant to be a group of like-minded students discussing recent advances in analytical DNA technologies.  He tried creating a Google group for that club, not expecting the fairly judgmental response he received… Note that Google’s skilled [...]

Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 in Science, Technology | View Comments